| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.34 | metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be melted, if you | mettle this counterfeyt lump of ours will be melted if you |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.83 | As all the metal in your shop will answer. | As all the mettall in your shop will answer. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.119 | No, good mother. Here's metal more attractive. | No good Mother, here's Mettle more attractiue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.210 | And like bright metal on a sullen ground, | And like bright Mettall on a sullen ground: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.116 | For from his metal was his party steeled, | For from his Mettle, was his Party steel'd; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.239 | Of what coarse metal ye are moulded – envy; | Of what course Mettle ye are molded, Enuy, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.259 | To stamp his image in forbidden metal, | To stamp his Image in forbidden mettel, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.16 | That I must draw this metal from my side | That I must draw this mettle from my side |
| King Lear | KL I.i.69 | I am made of the self metal as my sister | I am made of that selfe-mettle as my Sister, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.57 | metal heavy, dull, and slow? | mettall heauie, dull, and slow? |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.48 | Let there be some more test made of my metal | Let there be some more test, made of my mettle, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.48 | As to put metal in restrained means | As to put mettle in restrained meanes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.131 | A breed for barren metal of his friend? | A breede of barraine mettall of his friend? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.124 | Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can, | Thou mak'st thy knife keene: but no mettall can, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.52 | Not till God make men of some other metal | Not till God make men of some other mettall |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.59 | Of golden metal that must round my brow | Of Golden Mettall, that must round my Brow, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.302 | Even of your metal, of your very blood, | Euen of your mettall, of your very blood: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.382 | Th' imperial metal, circling now thy head, | Th' Imperiall mettall, circling now thy head, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.156 | No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil. | No vse of Mettall, Corne, or Wine, or Oyle: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.6 | They have all been touched and found base metal, | They haue all bin touch'd, and found Base-Mettle, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.48 | But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back, | But mettall Marcus, steele to the very backe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.22 | The fineness of which metal is not found | The finenesse of which Mettall is not found |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.14 | metal of India? | Mettle of India? |